Historic photos of the former Knoxville General Hospital School of Nursing

U.S. Army Nursing Corps cadets studied at the Knoxville General Hospital Nursing School during World War II. Pictured while working in Oak Ridge are Fanny Hackworth Taylor from Knoxville, left, Bernice Lee Tully from Bristol, Va., and Alva Jo Ashe Creech from Lynch, Ky. Fanny Taylor and Jo Creech are still living. (Billie McNamara/Special to the News Sentinel)

Mrs. Earl Leming, left, Margaret Parks, and Bobbie Merritt are shown with an angiocardiograph machine at Knoxville General Hospital on Aug. 8, 1956. The $3,282 machine is among more than $11,000 worth of medical equipment making the move to UT Hospital with the closure of General Hospital. (KNS Archive)

1954 graduates from the Knoxville General Hospital School of Nursing. (Submitted)

Unidentified Knoxville General Hospital Nursing School students are seen in softball uniforms in the 1940s. The hospital's team played in city league competitions. (Billie McNamara/Special to the News Sentinel)

Knoxville General Hospital medical technologist Cora Rucker is shown at a blood bank in 1943. Rucker, originally from Gainesville, Ga., was a 1937 graduate of the General Hospital Nursing School. She died in 2007. (KNS Archive)

Knoxville General Hospital in 1936. The walkway over Cleveland Place connected what nurses called the Lincoln Memorial University side of the hospital with the city side. (KNS Archive)

Knoxville General Hospital in 1956. The walkway over Cleveland Place connected what nurses called the Lincoln Memorial University side of the hospital with the city side. (KNS Archive)

The nursing school at Knoxville General Hospital had a bowling club, a basketball team and several other activities. (Submitted)

The contagion unit is where patients who needed to be isolated were kept at Knoxville General Hospital.

A billing schedule from Knoxville General Hospital in the 1950s shows costs per treatment.

Nurses Lilly Anderson, left, and Joan Nichols sort through medical records at Knoxville General Hospital on Aug. 8, 1956. Anderson was a 1952 graduate of the General Hospital Nursing School. Nichols was in the 1956 and last nursing school class at General Hospital. (KNS Archive)

Third from left is Madeline Boyer McCall, mother of Mary McCall McNamara. Boyer McCall also was a graduate of the Knoxville General Hospital Nursing School and encouraged her twin daughters, both of whom became nurses. (Submitted)